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Job 22:18 KJV
Job · chapter 22 · verse 18
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.Job 22:18 · King James Version
Job 22:18 in context
16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- counselʻêtsâhadviceH6098 →
- filledmâlêʼto fill or be full of, in a wide applicationH4390 →
- housesbayitha houseH1004 →
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- goodṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
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Eliphaz, having endeavoured to convict Job, by setting his sins (as he thought) in order before him, here endeavours to awaken him to a sight and sense of his misery and danger by reason of sin; and this he does by comparing his case with that of the sinners of the old world;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-20